Hi,
It’s April already and last week was pretty eventful.
We quietly released a new look for our website finally! More exciting things are on the way!
Please try out our Plugin of the Month – Image Gallery Block Plugin. It is quite a handy little one.
Also, let us know what you think about our Newsletter. We love your feedback.
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📰 Latest from WordPress
- Gutenberg 12.9 is out: This release brings over many features that enable both theme developers and website administrators more control over what is editable and presented to users.
- WordPress 5.9.3 Release Candidate 1 is available: It features 9 bug fixes on Core, as well as 9 bug fixes for the Block Editor.
- WordPress.com makes major unannounced pricing changes: WP.com has changed pricing from five plans to two plans, and slashed storage on the free tier from 3GB to 500MB.
- Text selection across multiple blocks is coming to WordPress: The new feature does not do away with the ability to partially select text across multiple blocks and manipulate them as a group.
- Enabling WebP by default: This proposal seeks to integrate WebP by default into WordPress core. The WordPress developer community has responded negatively against the proposal because it will cause a massive increase in disk space usage. WP Tavern too has taken a look into the proposal.
- Proposal: Steps to integrate #WPDiversity into WordPress event organizing: Please share your thoughts on this proposal by Friday, April 8.
- Proposal for dynamic replacement of server-provided content in blocks and in HTML attributes: This is a proposal for dynamic tokens
- FSE program testing call #13: Authoring an author template: Please leave feedback by April 21, 2022
- Call for Photographers for WordCamp Europe 2022: Apply before April 08, 2022
- WooCommerce to remove ZeroClipboard: WooCommerce will remove ZeroClipboard (a JQuery plugin used to manage clipboard interactions) from its dependencies in an upcoming release.
- PhpStorm 2022.1 EAP build #7 is now available: Check it out.
- Chrome 100 promoted to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux: Chrome 100.0.4896.60 contains a number of fixes and improvements. Also check the 100 cool web moments they shared.
- Google expands Markdown support for Google Docs: In Google Docs, you can now select “Automatically detect Markdown” from Tools > Preferences to enable auto correcting for Markdown syntax.
- Google announced two new features for US-based English language searchers: One is a feature to show a highly cited label in the Top Stories results and the other is improving the about this result feature for rapidly evolving topics.
- New Google search label for highly cited sources: A new label in Google Search will help people identify webpages that are highly cited sources of information. The label will appear next to pages in Top Stories.
- Google expands Trusted Store Badge to free shopping listings: The coveted Google Trusted Store badge is now available on free product listings.
- Google’s Privacy Sandbox ad technology testing begins: Developers will gain access to Privacy Sandbox’s newest measurement proposals: Topics, FLEDGE and Attribution Reporting. They are the replacement for the beleaguered FLoC initiative that was killed off back in January.
- Google Ads Editor v2.0 is out: This release adds support for Performance Max campaigns, conversion goals, and more.
- Google Business Profiles add new recycling attribute: This new attribute may help your business stand out from the competition in the Google local results.
- Google introduces Retail Search for eCommerce sites: Google Cloud has announced the release of Retail Search, a tool designed to give retailers the capabilities of Google’s search engine on their own domains.
- YouTube to drop Maximize Lift bidding: Google will be ending support for Maximize Lift bidding for YouTube, the company said, leaving a TrueView, in-stream ads option behind as YouTube continues to enhance its ad offerings.
- Facebook ads ‘Interest Categories’ may be up to 33% inaccurate: But before pulling ad spends to different platforms, it is worthwhile to assess the current account performance and make adjustments from that data.
- Twitter tests 3 new ad formats: Select brands now have access to Interactive Text, Product Explorer, and Collection ads on Twitter.
- LinkedIn adds new & improved tools to Creator Mode: New tools added to LinkedIn’s Creator Mode give you more analytics data with greater insight into audience engagement, and access to new profile features. LinkedIn also announced Newsletters for business pages.
- TikTok launches Search Ads Beta for selected partners: TikTok has quietly rolled out a search ads beta for specific partners.
- Microsoft took down 3 billion ads in 2021: Fake celebrity-endorsed ads, account takeover attempts increased, according to Microsoft’s ad safety year in review.
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Vulnerabilities in Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall plugin by CleanTalk: These reflected Cross-Site scripting vulnerabilities that could be used for site takeover if an attacker could successfully trick a site administrator into performing an action, such as clicking a link.
- Advanced Custom Fields plugin vulnerabilities: The plugin does not have proper authorisation which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to view information on the database without access permission.
- Google Ads latency issue confirmed with ad reviews: Google said this is impacting a significant subset of users specific to Responsive search ads (RSAs).
- Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok: Meta Platform is reportedly involved in paying one of the largest Republican consulting firms in the US to carve out a nationwide campaign aiming at turning citizens against TikTok.
- Facebook confirms ‘massive ranking failure’: After Meta’s smear campaign against rival social network TikTok, it has been confirmed that Facebook was showing harmful content to users over a period of six months. A bug allowed Facebook posts with nudity, violence, Russian propaganda to appear in users’ news feeds.
- A sinister way to beat multifactor authentication is on the rise: Lapsus$ and the group behind the SolarWinds hack have utilized prompt bombing to defeat weaker MFA protections in recent months.
- Cybercriminals are targeting outdated WordPress sites to run phishing ads: Hundreds of sites have been compromised so far.
🔌 Plugins & Themes
- Autologin URLs plugin: This plugin hooks into the wp_mail filter to augment existing URLs with login codes so users are automatically logged in when visiting the site through email links.
- Abs – Additional block styles plugin: The plugin from WebMan Design provides new additional creative styles to your WordPress website native blocks in the editor.
- Social Contact Form plugin: A revolutionary new contact form plugin for WordPress. It sends the leads directly to your WhatsApp account.
- WPControl plugin: WPControl allows you to easily enable and disable WordPress Core features, letting you remove those features that you don’t use from the dashboard you and your users see.
- Blank plugin: A completely blank custom page template to build on.
- ZeroOne eCommerce plugin: Order management for digital products
- Update URLs: Helps you change old URLs and links in your website.
- Say Hello plugin: This plugin allows you to use the shortcode to address your website visitors as follows: good morning, good day and good evening.
- Hide Cart Functions plugin: It gives a WooCommerce website full control over each user side shop’s function, while allowing a user to create several rules to apply to various categories or products within the same system.
- Disable WebP By Default plugin: This small plugin disables WebP creation on upload.
- Mollie Payments for WooCommerce arrives in the UK: The plugin is already available in other European countries as part of our long-term partnership with WooCommerce.
- Bricksy Pro theme released: With its full-site editing experience, professionally designed block, and page patterns, it is fully customizable and easy to use.
💵 Investments & Acquisitions
- TikTok taps into GIPHY’s video clips with a new editing tool: TikTok and GIPHY are partnering on a new editing tool, allowing users to quickly grab clips from a vast library of short videos. TikTok Library is the name of the new in-app tool.
♿️ Accesibility
- Frontend accessibility – Doing it the right way: From Deepak Vijayan of Awsm Innovations
👥 Community News
- A return to in-person WP events: WP Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses returning to in-person WordPress events.
- Represent your community: Join the WordCamp Asia 2023 team: If you are someone who is passionate about WordPress and want to help shape the future of it in Asia, please join.
- Building an author template from the WordPress Site Editor: Justin Tadlock responds to FSE outreach #13
- Storytale introduced Unco: New 3D illustration set of 142 characters, objects, icons, and scenes.
- AIOSEO WordPress plugin integrates Microsoft Clarity: Clarity is Microsoft’s free analytics tool that provides insights into on-site user behaviour. This integration will help you identify areas to improve and optimize for a better user experience.
- Neve 3.2 “Red Lake” released: The theme update has loads of new features.
- A new era of WordPress themes is finally here: From Rich Tabor.
- Convesio launches new partner programs: Convesio introduced two new programs for agencies and solution providers
- WP Migrate DB Pro is now WP Migrate: WP Migrate 2.3 is also out.
- Oxygen 4.0 Beta 2 is now available: Oxygen 4.0 introduces an overhauled builder UI, PHP 8.0 support, a fix for duplicated Repeater ids, and a ton of other enhancements, bug fixes, and tweaks.
- New GridPane Core Plan from GridPane: Gridpane is a platform to build your own world-class WordPress hosting and care plan service. With the new plan, just pay for your server. There’s no support on this free plan, it’s just the knowledge base, but it’s a very impressive knowledge base.
- The Advanced Gradient Builder for Divi from Elegant Themes: It is a new control type in the Visual Builder that allows you to design advanced gradients using multiple color stops and new gradient options.
- JetThemeCore updated: It is integrated with WordPress block editor and you can create templates with Gutenberg now.
- Myles Lagolago-Craig joins XWP as CEO: Myles had worked at NewsCorp Australia for the past 20 years and served as the Director of Publishing Technology and Services.
- Joe Howard founder of WP Buffs has a new venture: He has joined Jacob Beckerman as co-founder of Driftly App
- New PPC salary report: Duane Brown released his seventh annual PPC Salary Survey revealing what professionals are earning around the world.
- Average web developer salary: From John Hughes of CodeinWP
- UA gotta be kidding: Brian Kardell on how big a deal UA can be
- Grow fast by acquiring other businesses: Gordan Orlic on acquisitions: From Freemius.
- A look back at 30+ years of website design: From Myia Kelly of HubSpot
- 5 Social media trends to definitely pay attention to in 2022: From Torquemag
- WordPress Gutenberg block news 1st April 2022: From Jamie Marsland
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- New workshop on taking advantage of Query Loops: From Learn WordPress team.
- Gutenberg: the complete guide at the WordPress editor: From Ivan Messina of Supporthost
- Latest version of Easy WP Guide released: A simple, easy to read WordPress manual that will guide you through the process of editing your site content.
- Creating a sidebar for your posts using the Full Site Editing Blank Template: Demonstration by Bud Kraus on April 06.
- The ultimate guide and review of the Elementor: From WP Marmite
- How to restrict content in Elementor: From Cosmoslabs
- How to build book and book review cards with WordPress blocks: From Justin Tadlock of WPTavern.
- How to create an inner border block style for images: From Brian Gardner
- How to fix the Invalid JSON error in WordPress? From RanthMath.
- How to restore deleted WordPress pages and posts: From Jetpack
- Using the post featured image with the cover block: From Dave
- Overlooked facts about variables and objects in Python: From Trey Hunner
- Debugging React, JavaScript, and PHP at the same time with PhpStorm: From Jonathan Bossenger of WP Migrate.
- The roads not taken: Vitalik Buterin explores the alternate solutions that could’ve been used for Ethereum blockchain.
- How to install Matomo in WordPress: From Nick Schäferhoff
- Those HTML attributes you never use: From Louis Lazaris of Smashing Magazine
- Toxic links and disavows: A comprehensive SEO guide: About disavowing links.
- What do web agencies use for the H1 on their home page?: From The Admin Bar
📆 Save The Dates
- Women in Tech Hiring Fair on April 5-7: Interact directly with Recruiters and Engineering Managers, giving you the chance to land a job interview.
- Pricing strategy for agencies and freelancers: Online event from GoDaddy Pro.
- WP Career Summit on April 08: The conference for job seeking and hiring in WordPress.Calls for speakers and sponsors and opens registration.
- WordCamp Athens 2022 on April 9 – 10: The Greek WordPress Community will host WordCamp Athens 2022 in person at the Athenais Cultural Center.
- IAC22 on April 18-23: The IA conference exists to promote discourse and learning about the intentional design of information environments.
- WPEngine’s DE{CODE} 2022 on April 20-21: The virtual event is dedicated to helping developers build better WordPress experiences faster.
- Atarim Web Agency Summit 2022 on April 26th-29th: Join leading agency owners and WordPress professionals to discuss challenges and solutions together.
- Expand 2022 on April 27-28: Expand (organized by GoDaddy Pro in Orlando, FL) is an event created to connect web pros through networking, education, and fun. The theme of Expand 2022 will be Empowerment.
- The First Post Status Twitter Conference on May 24: The goal for the Post Status Twitter Conference is to have two presentations every hour from 9am – 4pm EST, around WordPress and the web industry.
- 10th Annual WordCamp Europe on 3-4 June 2022 in Porto: Tickets are available now.
- The Page Builder Summit on June 20-24: Join the VIP list to be the first to know when you can get your free ticket.
- WordCamp MontcWordCamp Montclair – June 25, 2022 — Montclair, NJlair 2022 on June 22: Call for speakers is now open.
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-1: The call for speakers is now open and will close on April 17, 2022.
- WordCamp Nederland 2022 in September 15 & 16: Save the dates
- Inclusive Design 24 on September 22: Call for speakers is open for the 24-hour long livestream conference.
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